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Wendy M. Christensen

402AdamsHall7000CollegeStationBrunswick,ME04011-8470(207)725-3268wchriste@bowdoin.eduwww.ssc.wisc.edu/~wchriste

URRENT

MPLOYMENT

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2010

VisitingAssistantProfessor,

DepartmentofSociologyandAnthropology

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BowdoinCollege,Brunswick,Maine

DUCATION

2010

Ph.D.

Sociology,UniversityofWisconsin–Madison

Dissertation

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MobilizingMilitaryMotherhood:NegotiatingSupport,ActivismandPoliticsintheU.S.WaronTerrorism

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Committee:

MyraMarxFerree(Chair),MustafaEmirbayer,CameronMacdonald,PamelaOliver,andAiliMariTripp2004

M.S.

,Sociology,UniversityofWisconsin–Madison2002

B.A.

,SociologywithHonors(MagnacumLaude)StateUniversityofNewYorkatStonyBrook–StonyBrook,NY

ESEARCH AND

EACHING

NTERESTS

Politicalsociology,socialinequality,sociologyofgender,sociologyofthefamily,warandmilitary,sociologyofculture,socialtheory,newsmedia,Internetcommunicationstechnology,andresearchmethods.

UBLICATIONS

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Christensen,WendyM.2009.“TechnologicalBoundaries:DefiningthePersonalandthePoliticalinMilitaryMothers’OnlineSupportForums

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Women'sStudiesQuarterly,

37:1&2Christensen,WendyM.andMyraMarxFerree.2008.“CowboyoftheWorld?GenderDiscourseandtheIraqWarDebate.”

QualitativeSociology

,31:3,pp.287-306Christensen,WendyM.2005.Reviewof

Rampage:TheSocialRootsofSchoolShootings

byKatherineNewman.

QualitativeSociology

,28:3Christensen,WendyM.2004.“Columbine”in

Men&Masculinities:ASocial,Cultural,andHistoricalEncyclopedia

,MichaelS.KimmelandAmyAronson(Eds.),ABC-CLIO,Incorporated

Christensen, Wendy M.

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RTICLES IN

ROGRESS

Christensen,WendyM.“TheOnlineWorldasProblematic:DoingFeministInternetResearch”(underreview)Christensen,WendyM.“CreatingMaternalCitizenship:MothersastheGatewaystoMilitaryService”(inprogress:targetsubmission10/11)

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Christensen,WendyM.“ThePoliticsofFootPowder:DepoliticizingMotherhoodduringWartime”(inprogress:targetsubmission12/11)

ELLOWSHIPS

WARDS

Spring2011GibbonsSummerResearchGrant($5000),BowdoinCollegeSpring2009MaryWashburnWilletsAwardforExcellenceintheSocialSciences(Awardedfordissertationresearch.)DepartmentofGenderandWomen'sStudies,UW–MadisonWinter2007DissertationResearchAward,DepartmentofSociology,UW–MadisonFall2005&DAAD(GermanAcademicExchangeService)Fellowship,CenterforSpring2007GermanandEuropeanStudiesCollaborativeResearchSeminar:“Gender,GenreandPoliticalTransformations:InterdisciplinaryPerspectives”(UW–MadisonandUniversityofMinnesota–TwinCities)

ELECTED

ONFERENCE

RESENTATIONS

Christensen,WendyM.2011“ThePoliticsofFootPowder:DepoliticizingMotherhoodDuringWartime”atthe

MiniconferenceonMilitarySociology

duringtheEasternSociologicalSociety’sannualconferenceinPhiladelphia,PA,andinthe

FamiliesandtheMilitary

panelattheAmericanSociologicalAssociationAnnualMeetinginLasVegas,NV.Christensen,WendyM.2009“RecruitingMothers:AFeministAnalysisofHowMilitaryMotherhoodisDefinedbytheMilitaryandbyMothersOnline”InvitedThematicPanel,

FeminismandWeb2.0,

AmericanSociologicalAssociationAnnualMeeting,SanFrancisco,CA.Christensen,WendyM.2008“TheGenderedHomefront:U.S.MilitaryMothersandtheWorkofSeparatingtheWarfromtheWarrior”attheAmericanSociologicalAssociationAnnualMeeting,Boston,MA.Christensen,WendyM.2008“TheOnlineWorldasProblematic:BringingInstitutionalEthnographytotheInternet”attheSocietyfortheStudyofSocialProblems2008AnnualMeeting,Boston,MA.Christensen,WendyM.2007“TheOnlineWorldasProblematic:FeministInternetMethodology,”MidwestSociologicalSocietyannualconference,MidwestSociologistsforWomeninSocietyConference,Chicago,IL.

Christensen, Wendy M.

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Christensen,WendyM.2007“MilitaryMothersOnline:NegotiatingSupport,ActivismandPoliticsintheU.S.WaronTerrorism,”ChristinaConferenceonWomen’sStudies,EuropeanGenderandICTSymposium,UniversityofHelsinki,Finland.Christensen,WendyM.2006“OurFamilies,YourFreedom:ConstructingMilitaryMotherhoodintheU.S.WaronTerrorism,”GenderandPoliticalTransformationsConference,CenterforGermanandEuropeanStudies,UniversityofMinnesota,Minneapolis,MNandinthe

MaternalismsandWar

panelattheFeminismandWarConference,SyracuseUniversity,Syracuse,NY.Christensen,WendyM.2005“TheCowboyoftheWorld:GenderingIraqWarDiscourse,”

Gender&SexualityintheGlobalU.S.MilitaryEmpire,

AmericanSociologicalAssociation,Philadelphia,PAandatMidwesternSociologicalSocietyannualconference,Minneapolis,MN.

THER

ONFERENCE

CTIVITIES

Discussant

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MilitaryControlandRegulation

panelattheMiniconferenceonMilitarySociologyatthe2010EasternSociologicalSocietyannualconferenceinPhiladelphia,PA.

Organizer